Halloween Countdown 2021: Day 3

 

Halloween can be jolly, merry, and scary.

Well, a little scary. 

Song of the Witches

Macbeth, Act IV, Scene 1

by William Shakespeare

Round about the cauldron go: 

In the poisoned entrails throw. 

Toad, that under cold stone 

Days and nights has thirty-one 

Sweated venom sleeping got, 

Boil thou first i’ the charmed pot. 

Double, double toil and trouble; 

Fire burn and cauldron bubble. 

Fillet of a fenny snake, 

In the cauldron boil and bake; 

Eye of newt and toe of frog, 

Wool of bat and tongue of dog,

Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, 

Lizard's leg and owlet's wing.

For a charm of powerful trouble, 

Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. 

Double, double toil and trouble; 

Fire burn and cauldron bubble. 

Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf, 

Witch's mummy, maw and gulf 

Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark, 

Root of hemlock digg'd i’ the dark, 

Liver of blaspheming Jew; 

Gall of goat; and slips of yew 

Sliver'd in the moon's eclipse; 

Nose of Turk, and Tartar's lips; 

Finger of birth-strangled babe 

Ditch-deliver'd by a drab, 

Make the gruel thick and slab: 

Add thereto a tiger's chaudron, 

For the ingredients of our cauldron. 

Double, double toil and trouble, 

Fire burn and cauldron bubble. 

Cool it with a baboon's blood, 

Then the charm is firm and good.